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As a corrections officer working with young offenders, Teresa Goines saw first-hand the heartbreaking cycle of kids leaving jail, being unable to get a job and returning to prison. She also saw programs designed to help these kids...

“If you could reduce our business to one line,” says Leda Marritz, creative director of DeepRoot, “it might be trees need soil.” In particular, city trees—which usually compete for land with sidewalks...

When Eileen Hassi Rinaldi moved to San Francisco in 2003, she loved the city’s food, farmers’ markets and proximity to wine country. “But the coffee was so far behind what I was used to in Seattle,” says Rinaldi....

Veritable Vegetable is a trailblazer in many ways. The longest-running organic food distributor in the country, it was founded in 1974 as a worker collective-a part of the People's Food System, a group organized to create an...

CODEPINK, the grassroots peace and social justice non-profit, got its name in a spontaneous play on words. It was 2002, the U.S. was hurtling toward war with Iraq, and Homeland Security was posting daily terror alerts ranging from Code...